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“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
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Albert Camus
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“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
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William Shakespear,
Hamlet
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#4
“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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#5
“You only live twice:
Once when you are born
And once when you look death in the face”
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Ian Fleming,
You Only Live Twice
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#6
“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
―
Lao Tsu,
Tao Teh Ching
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#7
“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
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Plato
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#8
“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
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Socrates
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#9
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
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Confucius
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#10
“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
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Plato
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#11
“Things do not change; we change.”
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henry david thoreau,
Walden or, Life in the Woods
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#12
“The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.”
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Lao Tzu,
Te-Tao Ching
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#13
“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
―
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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life
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#14
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
―
Socrates
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#15
“All the world's a stage we're going through.”
―
Lorrie Moore,
Anagrams
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#16
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
―
Charles W. Eliot
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#17
“Day and night I always dream with open eyes.”
―
Jose Marti
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